Talkin' 'bout Information Revolutions

Carlota Perez knows a thing or two about bubbles. in fact, the Venezuelan scholar has studied all five technological revolutions over the past two centuries, and she's found a series of similarities among them. According to her, we've still got a ways to go until the information revolution runs its course.

Perez is a research fellow at the University of Sussex and the University of Cam-bridge, and her book, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages (Edward Elgar, 2002), is widely studied by the academic and business communities.